For instance, when I went to Canada to receive training as a Certified Instructor with the National Guild of Hypnotists, researching away in the streets of Toronto, it seemed to me then (years ago) that many, many people were in spiritual shutdown. While not so many were in spiritual addiction.

The sample of the population I researched was nothing like how many Japanese auras I read, during my 13 tour-style trips to Japan. (Which was the basis for my estimate that, unlike elsewhere on earth, if you’re born and raised inJapanese, your likelihood of being an empath is 1 in 5. In contrast to elsewhere on earth, with just 1 in 20 people usually born as empaths.

One of the reasons why this guest post by IRENE fascinates me so is that she has had far more experience with reading auras of Canadians. And that’s just when the perceptiveness gets started. Thank you so much for what follows, IRENE.

Since The Age of Awakening, Lots of Spiritual Shutdown in Canada

I’m Canadian and my understanding is the ratio tips to the spiritual shutdown side here more than the equal 45% in spiritual shutdown/45% in spiritual addiction in the U.S.

At least, most people I know tend more to toward spiritual shutdown. I have not done aura reading to confirm that they are in spiritual shutdown, but what I observe is this:

They accept only human-level answers,

They don’t accept anything that is unseen or “out there”

They don’t accept anything that doesn’t make logical sense intellectually, fitting neatly into the person’s (current conceptual) understanding of the world.

They seem to make decisions based on fear, trying to avoid unpleasant things by controlling their environment and allowing no change.

Although some will blindly accept directives based on their particular religious interpretation, but in every other area of their life, things must be seen first in order to exist.

What’s Really Fascinating about Canadian-Style Spiritual Shutdown?

Far as I can tell, the people I’ve met in spiritual shutdown consider energy awareness to be a part of their experience now.

(Disclaimer: I am reporting my observations only. I have spoken about this directly with very few of these individuals.)

So They Don’t Believe in Energy Anything. Yet…

They’ll say (and take action based on) things like these:

“I just had a feeling that would happen (or was needed).”

“I get really good vibes from her; I think our relationship will really work out.”

“Did you notice when she walked into the room, how the energy in the air just changed?

“There’s an energy dynamic in this team that is bringing us down. Let’s do better.”

“That house was feeling sad to them (or making them feel sad). So they moved.”

“The energy in the house is different when you’re away.”

“That person is so draining to be around that I just avoid him now.”

Hey, It Gets Stranger

To me, spiritual shutdown helps to explain odd behavior from people who claim not to believe in anything energetic but then speak or act in a way that can only be explained by being energy sensitive.

Like what?

Some will justify manipulative or coercive behavior with the reasoning, “I feel Jesus wants me to do this.” Or “I feel Jesus wants me to say this.”

Or how about this? The other day, I met a truck driver who seemed very down to earth. He took one look at me and said, “You’re looking very zen today.” (Know what? That day I was very much positioned at human vibrational frequencies.)

It’s Only Acceptable to Use Energy for PHYSICAL Healing

That seems more widely accepted than even thinking about other energy modalities… like energy spirituality.

People I’ve met generally seem to accept the idea of energy moving in the body. So it’s okay with them to believe that energy can cause physical healing.

This helps me to understand why these energy-based healing modalities have gone mainstream in Canada, like acupuncture and Reiki and EFT (tapping).

Plus Many Canadians Forget They Don’t Trust Life Beneath the Surface When…

They’ll describe their feelings in great detail. Overheard often are conversations about “Working on myself” to look for “What’s really going on.”

Very popular are self-analysis techniques. (My fellow Canadians often beat themselves up for not doing better).

By contrast, far fewer questions address the what, where, when and who. Those practical questions that people ask when they are paying attention to surface, everyday human life.

Doesn’t that Seem Like Energy Awareness to You?

It sure seems like energy awareness/energy sensitivity to me.

However, this does not mean these individuals are willing to talk about energy as such or spiritual growth or anything spiritual or “woo-woo.”

Although so many people I meet would not admit out loud that they are energy sensitive, actions speak louder than words.

Many of their real-life, human decisions seem made (at least in part) based on the vibes they get from someone. They may even actively fear and avoid so-called “toxic” people.

What about Removing Emotional and Spiritual Problems?

Rosetree Energy Spirituality (RES) specializes in removal of STUFF: Stuck energies within a person’s energy field that blocks emotional and spiritual growth.

RES includes specific names and techniques for removal of 15 different forms of STUFF.

Seems to me, people with greater energy sensitivity are noticing the impact of what we call STUFF. Which is different from noticing energetic imbalances that are changed by energy medicine modalities or techniques of energy psychology.

Some people around me try to fix what we call STUFF (emotional and spiritual blockage) with energy medicine-type solutions.

Others slogging through psychological work, feeling like they’re making progress and a breakthrough is just around the corner. (While it seems to me that they’re just noticing energies – talking about their feelings more, analyzing their reactions, things like that.)

Energetic? Yes or No?

None of those subjective, workaround techniques is seen as being “energetic.” Sometimes it drives me wild how closed people seem to energetic literacy-type describing energy in ways that address human problems, personal growth, spiritual evolution.

Because I’ve developed Stage Three Energetic Literacy, I know that skill can be gained and then a person can read auras in detail.

But what happens when I suggest the idea of an energetic reality which anyone can read with appropriate skill?

Supposedly, “That’s just New Age mumbo-jumbo.” Or “A big fraud.” Or “All the same thing.”

I Wish These Energy-Feelers Who Remain Staunch Energy-Skeptics Would Read “THE NEW STRONG”

I’m hopeful that the clear logic and observable reality as described in “THE NEW STRONG” will resonate.

These individuals are looking for happiness believing that safety has to be the top priority and that the human level is the only reality. Ironically, they’re blind to being, already, deeply, energy aware.

It’s negatively impacting their lives — until they find a way (like Rose’s program in that book for Easy Vibrational Balance) that helps them adjust better to the Age of Awakening.

“THE NEW STRONG” presents many skills and understandings: “Rules & Tools for Thriving in The Age of Awakening.”

I’m finding it so refreshing to understand the subtle alterations in the New Rules for The Age of Awakening, in contrast to The Old Rules.

Following today’s new rules makes human life work so much better.

Life doesn’t have to be a horrible, hopeless fight. Life can be a joy.

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So interesting, Irene! It parallels something I noticed when I first started spending a lot of time in medical settings.

I don’t know if the people I noticed were in spiritual shutdown or spiritual addiction or neither, but I definitely noticed energy talk, and I found the medical field to be a surprising place for it based on what I remembered from spending time as a candy striper in the hospital where my mother had worked and later working in the doctors’ office she worked in.

1 – People are spending a lot of time analysing themselves, going round in circles and thinking about how they should be “better” with a pensive attitude in order to feel that they are responding to the energies in a practical way. However, the anxiety and uncertainty makes it harder for them to actually make good practical decisions.

Extra note – weird stuff is happening with maths and software where certain ideas are trendy beyond all commonsense, they want to see more than is actually there … as people are trying to accept the new frequencies in a way that fits in with their intellectual understandings. (I’m not explaining this well… but I’ve been a researcher for a decade and yup, scientists are weird folk.)

Am really hoping my new workplace is mainly positioned at human frequencies… I think today you have to just make the effort to find places to live and work where the energy awareness is healthy so you are supported.

You know, it the general stubborness and pragmatism of places like the UK that I like. I find it to have been mainly a good influence to someone as abstract as me.

The UK is a good place to learn about perserverence and stability. But I quite accept that this means that we’ll go through a phase of spiritual shutdown in our own stubborn (non-Donald Trumpesque) way.

I am personally finding that there are some areas of my life where I need to have some interaction right now for objective reality reasons with people who are not functioning in a vibrationally balanced human way.

It got me thinking about a person who,from all observation, is in shutdown. They were curious about my spiritual pursuits and they admitted to being very skeptical about my success in RES. I mean I don’t look any different right?

Funny enough this is going to Peru to do Ayahuasca. So…my pursuits are too woo-woo yet they want to meet a shaman and do this. They said maybe they’ll have an awakening, but probably not. I am just starting to notice what this means now in the Age of Awakening-how people are coping.

I’d say that out on the west coast of Canada, there is more spiritual addiction. There are lots of spiritual groups. However, many people are more cherry-pickers, not committing to or supporting their groups much. With the high cost of facilities, some of the organized groups are fading out.

Considering this post though, it occurs to me that some of those who spoke energy aware may have actually been in shutdown. They talked the talk but were too stuck to go beyond ideas and self-critique.

The people I interact with on a regular basis are much more likely to fit the spiritual shutdown description.

(This links to my background as well. Coming from a fundamentalist Christian family with ties further north and east and having worked in practical business most of my professional career, I would be more likely to encounter spiritual shutdown.)

As a final twopence on spiritual shutdown in countries like the UK. I believe that both sides of Brexit, for example, contain people in spiritual shutdown… We really don’t have a Bernie Sanders type of movement anywhere…

Thanks so much for these posts all. The US and the UK are such different places.

I think David you are right-for this person more of a Drug holiday (a party is not a ceremony).

Isabella- I will certainly do my due diligence of saying something.

Just for fun there is a YouTube video from JP Sears where he is bringing awareness to how “it is becoming more common for people to use something that is very sacred in a very non-sacred way”. (his words).

I think many people don’t even consider that there is the potential for negative side effects (beyond chemical addiction) from drug use.

It’s sad and really rather naive to assume that “well maybe I’ll get spiritual benefit from this” without also considering “well maybe there are some unpleasant spiritual side effects that might happen”.

Interesting observation in #43, Rachel. My experience is different somewhat.

The people I have known who used recreational drugs generally rationalized and offered excuses. They were quite aware of the commonly discussed consequences, generally physical in nature, like the possible likelihood of severe addiction for different drugs, liver damage from alcohol, respiratory damage from pot smoking, etc. They were also sometimes aware of short-term emotional impacts, like alcohol having a depressive effect.

None of this changed their willingness to continue using the drugs (though it did sometimes impact how they took them or which drugs they chose). I don’t know if knowing about spiritual and emotional consequences would have changed anything.

But maybe if I’d known about this and mentioned it (sometimes emotional consequences are readily observable), they would at least have been making a more informed choice.

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